. Coming from an unknown section of the universe, the Legion are a formidable race of silicon - based life forms. Colonies of these creatures travel from planet to planet in an effort to spread their formidable kind. A group of these creatures landed on Earth, and began to wreck havoc on it's inhabitance. In this thread, I'll be chronicling the Queen Legion (who I'll refer to as Legion) and her swarm's most noteworthy feats pertaining to durability, strength, firepower, and other categories. I apologize up front for the poor quality of some of my screencaps. So, without further delay, let's begin.
Now, before I talk about Legion herself, I'll post this here regarding the heat output of Gamera's Mana Beam since I'll be referring to it throughout the rest of this post.
^The Mana Beam generated enough heat to vaporize a trench into the ground. And it did so indirectly; the beam never actually touches the ground. That is...a stupid amount of heat for an energy attack. Please keep that aforementioned info in mind as you read the rest of this post.
Strength:
Legion indirectly split a mountain by burrowing underneath it. Nuff said.
Speed: The Queen Legion is capable of tremendous bursts of speed. In her immature form, Legion burst out of the ground fast enough to break the sound barrier:
^Too fast for you to properly see her fly out of the ground, huh
? Yeah, that sort of speed is not achievable unless one is moving at supersonic speeds.Later on, in her mature form, Gamera attempted to gore her with the bone spurs located on his elbows. Legion was able to skeeter back with surprising speed, about 100 meters in one second:
Weaponry
Electromagnetic Blasts: Low End: Legion's most prominent offensive attribute, the Electromagnetic Blasts consist of concentrated microwaves, fired in short bursts. The shear destructive power of these bolts of energy is staggering. Few kaijus have replicated the amount of collateral damage that Legion's beam has caused in single shots. (Comparison: Multiple shots from the Spiral Rays failed replicate even half the amount of Co. damage that the EM blasts generated with single shots).
At one point, Legion's beam is shown to have put a series of massive craters in the ground, one of which Gamera himself could have fit inside:
^ Note that the largest crater, located to the left of Gamera, is over 100 meters in diameter.
* Used the length of Gamera's shell (roughly 80 meters in length) + the length of his tail (roughly 20 meters in length) as a reference.
Its explosive power is further enhanced by the massive splash effect it occasionally produces:
This is what the splash damage is capable of:
An interesting little tidbit regarding the splash effect is that it appears to be something that Legion's beam takes on during her third appearance, specifically when she went up against the tanks. What this suggests is that Legion can modify the amount of energy her beam gives off; she adopted the crazier, splashy beam to adapt to an opponent that was much smaller and more numerous compared to Gamera. It's something interesting to think about.
Apart from being explosive, the EM blasts have shown to be immensely hot. During their first battle, Legion's beam instantly cauterized the shoulder wound it inflicted on Gamera. Furthermore, during their second bout, more than a full minute after Legion had fired one of her blast, Gamera walked up to her and ended up burning his hand by grabbing her horn.
In comparison, Gamera wasn't burned at all by a prolonged exposure to the Mana Beam. In other words, Legion's beam was hot enough to burn Gamera when the Mana Beam couldn't.
What's scary about all this? Those aforementioned feats aren't high end; their just the power levels that the EM blasts normally display.
Electromagnetic Blasts: High End
^Notice how Gamera, in particular the rim of his shell, is still completely intact despite having been ground zero at a Sendai-leveling explosion. Well...
...Yeah, it's not lookin so intact anymore. Now, am I suggesting the EM blasts are stronger than a city-leveling explosion? No, that'd be silly to propose. All this feat illustrates is that Legion's beam has demonstrably pierced through something that is otherwise very resistant to damage. Its a very impressive showing of penetrating ability. Still, I can somewhat understand if some don't take this feat with the utmost sincerity given the fact that the EM blasts never really display this level of piercing power anywhere else in the movie. I, myself, don't really like to bring it to face value in a debate unless similarly outlandish feats are brought up by the opposition.
Laser Whips: An attack that is, in many respects, a more effective weapon than the EM blasts, the laser whips are of strands of superheated energy that legion can repeatedly shoot out at an enemy. The purpose of these energized whips are to cut, pierce, and burn a target. Unlike her beam, Legion can control this attack with deadly accuracy; she was able to impale Gamera on several different occasions, and even appears to have a degree of telekinetic influence over them
^Note how Gamera, despite being impaled, does not bleed.
Yes, like Legion's Beam, the Whips were hot enough to cauterize the wounds they inflicted on Gamera, burning him when the Mana Beam couldn't. Legion's Laser Whips are a phenomenally dangerous attack; versatility and a crazy heat output make them quite lethal.
Legion Swarm: Arguably the Queen Legion's most dangerous and effective asset, the Legion Swarm is a horde of symbiotic creatures that act as workers and defenders for the Legion colony. Like their Queen, the swarm sees and communicates using the EM spectrum and, as such, the Queen Legion is able to summon them at will. As workers, they help to further spur along the launching of the Legion Pod. As defenders, they are quite brutal. Similar to the soldiers of an ant colony, the brood is capable of swarming any target they perceive as a threat to their colony. Said target is then subjected to hundreds of slashing appendages rapidly digging into their being.
^An interesting aspect of the swarm is that when they attack, they appear to produce an electric shock powerful enough to harm Gamera.
So exactly why is the swarm so dangerous, besides the obvious "being covered in Legion soldiers"? Well, to answer that question, let's make a comparison. As demonstrated earlier in this post, Gamera was impaled, through and through, by Legion's Laser Whips. To make matters worse, she left me them in Gamera for several seconds; Gammy was literally getting his insides cooked.
After she removes them, however, Gamera is able to not only stay on his knees, but get back up and continue fighting. That's right, despite how devastating the Whips were on Gamera's body, they failed to keep him down for any sort of extended period of time.
In comparison, the swarm not only succeeded in damaging Gamera, but did what the Laser Whips failed to do; keep Gamera down for a prolonged period of time. That is seriously impressive, especially when you tack on Gamera incredible resistance to damage.
Defense:
Shield Legs: The Queen Legion isn't all offensive. Her ten appendages surrounding the upper region of her body are capable of producing streams of EM energy capable of blocking, deflecting, and dissipating various ranged weapons. In the case of Gamera's plasma balls, the EM shield appears to have removed the ions within the plasma ball themselves, chemically breaking down the ball into almost nothing.
^Catches the fireball
^Begins to break it down...
^More...
^And More...
^Until there is nothing left.
Durability:
Definitely a more controversial issue, Legion's durability has oftentimes been cited as subpar due to the fact she had appendages blown off by conventional weapons. That, fortunately, is not the case; Legion's durability is stellar. First off, and to go back to a previous point, an immature Queen flew out of several feet of Earth, doing so at supersonic speeds. I'm having difficulty calculating the amount of friction that was generated (help in calculations is welcomed). However, from what I do know about the relationship between speed and friction, I am quite confident in the notion that the amount of frictional force on Legion's body was considerably, easily warranting it being labeled an impressive feat of durability. Exactly how impressive is, again, a mystery to me.
And now we come to Legion's arguably most impressive feat of durability, the Mana Beam. Right off the bat, her silicon armor withstood direct exposure to the full heat of the Mana Beam (about 20 secs) for an extended period of time. And considering how absurdly hot said Beam is, that is an incredible showcasing of heat resistance on Legion's part.
Notice the pulse ring it forms immediately after the beam strikes Legion; it's indicative of one of two things:
1) The Mana Beam has a considerable amount of explosive power to it or
2) The more likely scenario, the Mana Beam hit Legion hard enough to generate a large shockwave upon contact. And the Queen didn't appear to receive any noteworthy damage. That's damn impressive.
Silicon Article
"Silicon is a metalloid, readily either donating or sharing its four outer electrons and it typically forms four bonds. Like carbon, its four bonding electrons give it opportunities to combine with many other elements or compounds to form a wide range of compounds. Unlike carbon, it can accept additional electrons and form five or six bonds in a sometimes more labile silicate form. Tetra-valent silicon is relatively inert, but still reacts with halogens and dilute alkalis, but most acids (except for some hyper-reactive combinations of nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid) have no known effect on it."
^So yes, being composed of mostly silicon renders Legion, and her swarm, immune to a most acid types, since silicon does not react to most types of acids/acidic substances.
The Legion soldiers themselves actually have a noteworthy durability feat of their own. In an effort to remove the swarm, Gamera was plowing himself through numerous buildings; not a single soldier was removed. Basically, the swarm is capable of withstanding TREMENDOUS amounts of blunt trauma.
Needless to say, Legion is a powerhouse of a kaiju. Devastating weaponry, exceptional durability, and immense phsyical strength make the Queen an extremely dangerous adversary for most kaijus/mechs to take on. I can go over her weaknesses if there are enough people that want it. And, again, help would be appreciated in regards to the whole "bursting out of the ground" feat. But for now, just sit back and try to take in the shear awesomeness of the daikaiju known as:
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